A Taste for M&Ms - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
The package of M&M's chocolate candies (plain) I had just opened contained 56 colorful, little oblate spheroids. It was obvious from a quick glance that certain colors were more common than others in this sample of M&M's. I counted up each color
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Tessellated Polyhedra - Jill Britton
Full-page printable nets of each of the regular polyhedra, decorated with individual surface tessellations in full color. A higher-resolution black-and-white version of each tessellated net appears in Polyhedra Pastimes, by Jill Britton, published by
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Tessellation - Roger Carthew
Sets of foam shapes for use in making tessellations. Site includes purchasing information, description of shapes and colors provided, and example tessellations.
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Tessellations - Robert Fathauer
A company that makes Puzzellations, Colorful Connectables, and Perpetual Patterns puzzles, plus a variety of other products inspired in part by the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, but also by mathematicians such as Roger Penrose and Benoit Mandelbrot.
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Tetrakys
Interlooping equilateral, isosceles, and scalene triangles for building two- and three-dimensional geometric objects, exploring area and volume, and visualizing fractions and arithmetic operations. The foam composition of these colorful manipulatives
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Time (SMILE) - Gracie Davenport, Spalding School
A lesson designed to teach physically Handicapped (EMH) students to tell time using a number chart; to demonstrate their ability to tell time by using a clock; and to use this skill to follow a daily schedule. From the Practical and Applied Math section
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Title III MSS Final Performance Report - Dana Lee Ling
Dana Lee Ling is a mathematics and science software specialist at the College of Micronesia-FSM. Articles document the College's attempts to increase the success of pre-algebra and algebra students through "conceptual" and technology-based approaches.
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Tomoko Fuse Origami Quilts - Jeff Kerwood
These origami quilts were designed and made by Jeff Kerwood, using the modules developed by Tomoko Fuse, a Japanese origami artist universally acknowledged as the master of modular or unit origami. In modular origami, the model is built up from multiple
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Toothpick Puzzle: a Math Line Puzzle - Math Forum
Starting with the configuration shown, move exactly two toothpicks to form four 1x1 squares. You must use all the toothpicks, without any overlap. The final product will consist of exactly four squares, all the same size as the five in the original configuration.
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Traffic Jam Activity - Suzanne Alejandre
A classroom activity (also called Hop, Skip, Jump) aligned to the NCTM and California Standards, to be explored through large movement experience, manipulatives, and an interactive Java applet. Students then revisit the activity, look for patterns, and
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Tumblehome Learning
Makers of educational products such as Lost in Tangrams and -- through a partnership with TERC, with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) -- Mixing in Math (MiM) cards, gameboards, and books.
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The Tutor House: math - Adrianne Meldrum
Tutoring elementary and middle school students, Meldrum would often "hunt the Internet for tips and helps on teaching concepts to my students. I find great stuff, but I wanted somewhere central that other tutors like me could find them...." Every Wednesday
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Virtual Polyhedra - George W. Hart
A growing collection of over 1000 virtual reality polyhedra to explore, complementing Hart's Pavilion of Polyhedreality. Includes instructions for building paper models of polyhedra including modular origami, with ideas for classroom use. Each of the
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